At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.
From Richard Cobden
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
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